Here's a secret about NJASK writing and how it's graded. The holistic rubric doesn't mention paragraphs and graders are taught that if the writing is good, the student can get a 4 or a 5 even if the writing isn't organized into paragraphs. But here's the thing--many graders look at a page and if it looks like it's all one big paragraph, the grader immediately thinks, There's no way this could be an advanced student, and that's how it's graded. (I have this on the authority of somebody who trained the graders.) So teach your students to format their writing in paragraphs.